{"id":7211,"date":"2026-02-16T02:19:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2026-02-16T02:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:19:33","slug":"accident-along-enugu-port-harcourt-expressway-claims-14-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/accident-along-enugu-port-harcourt-expressway-claims-14-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200eAccident along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway Claims 14 Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fourteen traders doing business at Isi Gate Market, Umuahia lost their lives on Saturday while returning from Enugu State after attending a traditional marriage ceremony.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eSoutheastposts reports that the accident occurred at about 6:45 PM along the busy Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eIt was further learnt that the victims, who conduct their businesses along Bonny Street by Owerri Road, Umuahia, had traveled to Enugu to attend the marriage of one of their fellow traders.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eOn returning, the Toyota Coaster bus they were riding collided with a Mercedes truck, resulting in the immediate death of eleven passengers.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eIt was further gathered that three more passengers died later from injuries sustained in the accident, while several others remain in critical condition.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eThe unfortunate incident was confirmed by the Enugu State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Franklin Agbakoba.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200e<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen traders doing business at Isi Gate Market, Umuahia lost their lives on Saturday while returning from Enugu State after attending a traditional marriage ceremony. \u200e \u200eSoutheastposts reports that the accident occurred at about 6:45 PM along the busy Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. \u200e \u200eIt was further learnt that the victims, who conduct their businesses along Bonny Street by Owerri Road, Umuahia, had traveled to Enugu to attend the marriage of one of their fellow traders. \u200e \u200eOn returning, the Toyota Coaster bus they were riding collided with a Mercedes truck, resulting in the immediate death of eleven passengers. \u200e \u200eIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,57],"tags":[2160,333,637],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-health","tag-bonny-street-umuahia","tag-enugu-port-harcourt-expressway","tag-road-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}